Metal Mouth Message Board

I have noticed that there is more pressure from my braces on my teeth during exercise. Has anyone else experienced this? Especially during weightlifting and I am not gritting or clenching my teeth during it either that I know of.

Is it normal the first day in braces to feel like your teeth are hitting each other funny or not quite like they did before? Maybe I am biting on the lower bracket but won't this change as my teeth shift?

It is 3:30pm and I have had braces exactly 3 hours. Am I weird, no pain hardly at all? Just feel weird but otherwise no pain. My bite feels weird and I think my top teeth are hitting a bottom bracket but otherwise they feel ok, foreign but not bad. I have 15 months in them and the less pain the bett...